Sunday, July 27, 2014

the scavengers

There's a story in here somewhere but I tend to go off on tangents even I don't expect - the story I was thinking of has no dragon-like beings. Even as this pair appear to be innocuous enough one can never be entirely sure about the intentions of dragons.

I may paint it, or I may just draw another. These days I'm having a hard time maintaining any creative focus. This could be blamed either on the weather (which has been wonderful) or on the news (decidedly not wonderful).

24 comments:

I get so lost in your art, Susan. Your drawings, colored or not, take me back to books I used to read when a kid. The stories were great to read, but it was the artwork that pulled me into other worlds - just like here.

That's such a nice thing to say, Martha. Now that I'm about as far away from young as it's possible to get (and still hold a pencil) I find my favorite things to illustrate are these mysterious circumstances involving children. It's interesting to imagine the inner child of a child :)

I love this drawing - the feeling of story behind it, the beings in it, the rich texture and complex space. What I most wanted to know is did you model this on a real space, or is this entirely from your imagination? It's wonderful!

Hi Steve! It's good to see you after too long a time since we last met.

As for the interior here, although I did go in search of photographs taken inside old barns what I gleaned from that search is essentially (well, totally) my own impression of an interesting space. If you look closely you'll surely see some pretty impossible planes and angles, but all in all it works well enough to fool my eye too. Thanks so much for letting me know you like it.

Yes, the news is bad, starting with the S. Korean ferry disaster in which so many children dies; the loss of the Malaysian airliner from which nearly 300 people (80 were reputedly children) were seen "falling through the clouds"; and not forgetting the, literally, tens of thousands of children and adults being killed in Syria. As for the crimes being carried out by ISIS, they are unspeakable.

Hi Susan, I am sure there are many stories to emerge with your lovely drawing, as I hear a reverent hiss from one of your friendly dragons and the other is too shy at first, inhabiting an unexpected space. Best wishes

I love your drawing, it's quite complex and I hope you paint it! Or one like it. I'm here but it may stop me at any letter so be warned. It's my iPad methinks, as well. It's suspicious of it! Are you in all your drawings? ;)

Yeah, I got a bit over-involved in this drawing. Painting may have to wait a while as I'm busy with a couple of others. Once I get so much ink down coloring almost seem redundant. Me? In my drawings? That never occurred to me :)